Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

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No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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Death is better than disease.

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In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

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In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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